lasts, but will always remain in the community; because without this there can be no community, no commonwealth, which is contrary to the original agreement: so also when the society hath placed the legislative in any assembly of men, to continue in them and their successors, with direction and authority for providing such successors, the legislative can never revert to the people whilst that government lasts; because, having provided a legislative with power to continue for ever, they have given up their political power to the legislative, and cannot resume it. But if they have set limits to the duration of their legislative, and made this supreme power in any person, or assembly, only temporary; or else, when by the miscarriages of those in authority it is forfeited; upon the forfeiture, or at the determination of the time set, it reverts to the society, and the people have a right to act as supreme, and continue the legislative in themselves; or erect a new form, or under the old form place it in new hands, as they think good.

CONTENTS

OF THE

TWO TREATISES ON GOVERNMENT.

BOOK I.
Chap.

Page

1. The introduction

- 212

II. Of paternal and regal power

- 215
III. Of Adam's title to sovereignty, by creation

222

IV. Of Adam's title to sovereignty, by donation, Gen. i. 28. 227

V. Of Adam's title to sovereignty, by the subjection of Eve 244

VI. Of Adam's title to sovereignty, by fatherhood

249

VII. Of fatherhood and property considered together as foun-

tains of sovereignty

267

VIII. Of the conveyance of Adam's sovereign monarchical power 273

IX. Of monarchy, by inheritance from Adam

• 275

X. Of the heir to Adam's monarchical power

• 290

XI. Who heir ?

• 292

BOOK II.
Chap
I. The introduction

- 338

II. Of the state of nature

- 339

III. Of the state of war

- 347

IV. Of slavery

351

V. Of property

352

VI. Of paternal power

367

- 383

VII. Of political or civil society

394

VIII. Of the beginning of political societies

IX. Of the ends of political society and government

• 411

X. Of the forms of a commonwealth

- 415

XI. Of the extent of the legislative power

- 416

XII. Of the legislative, executive, and federative power of the

commonwealth

424

XIII. Of the subordination of the powers of the commonwealth 426

434

XIV. Of prerogative

XV. Of paternal, political, and despotical power, considered

· 440

together

XVI. Of conquest

443

• 455

XVII. Of usurpation

XVIII. Of tyranny

- 457

XIX. Of the dissolution of government

- 464

1

IN D E X

TO THE

FIFTH VOL U M E.

U M

to it,

A.

Absolute monarchy, the absurdity

of supposing it to descend from
Abraham, (the patriarch) his war Adam by heirship, 290
proves not a sovereign power,

no proof of it from Jan
310 cob, or other patriarchs, 297,
had no authority over &c.-nor from Noah's sons, 317
Lot,

313

nor from the dispersion
Absolute monarchy, being "jure of Babel,

319
divino," a new doctrine,

214

not enjoyed by them,
not proved divine from

321, 322
Adam's sovereignty by creation,

Nimrod had no right:
222-nor from his sovereignty

324
by donation,

227

the dukes of Edom, and
how destructive it is several kings mentioned in
to mankind among the Turks, Scripture, proofs against it, 325

452

inconsistent with civil
Eve's subjection proves society,

389
it not to be“jure divino," 244

why the subjects of it
nor Adam's fatherhood, 249,&c. are kept from destroying one
it is not proved divine another,

391, &c.
by the command, “Honour thy

how it came to be re-
father,"
257, &c. strained by laws,

ibid.
it flows not from father- Adam, no proof of his absolute
hood and property,

267, &c.

power over his children, 218
supposing " jure divi-

-220
no,” it is necessary to know the had no absolute authority by
person invested with it, 275, &c. creation,

222

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